1. Regulation by carnitine of myocardial fatty acid and carbohydrate metabolism under normal and pathological conditions

   • Menotti Calvani
   • Emilia Reda
   • Edoardo Arrigoni-Martelli

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 75 - 83

2. Defective suppression of the aldosterone biosynthesis during stroke permissive diet in the stroke-prone phenotype of the spontaneously hypertensive rat

   • Iolanda Enea
   • Paola De Paolis
   • Massimo Volpe

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 84 - 92

3. Mechanisms involved in coronary artery dilatation during respiratory acidosis in the isolated perfused rat heart

   • John W. Phillis
   • D. Song
   • M.H. O'Regan

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 93 - 97

4. Endothelin-1 induces interleukin-6 release via acctivation of the transcription factor NF-κB in human vascular smooth muscle cells

   • Michael Browatzki
   • Joachim Schmidt
   • Roger Kranzhöfer

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 98 - 105

5. Cardiac α-actin in smooth muscle cells: detection in umbilical cord vessels and in atherosclerotic lesions

   • Florian Bea
   • Harald Bär
   • Lothar Jahn

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 106 - 113

6. Rp-cAMPS has ho effect on adenosine A₁ receptors in guinea-pig cardiomyocytes

   • Dawn L. Adamson
   • Sian E. Harding

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 114 - 118

7. Preconditioning-induced attenuation of purine metabolite accumulation during ischemia: memory and multiple cycles

   • S. Lucas Mortimer
   • Christopher T. Kodl
   • David G.L. Van Wylen

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 119 - 126

8. Effects of preconditioning on myocardial interstitial levels of ATP and its catabolites during regional ischemia and reperfusion in the rat

   • A.I Kuzmin
   • A.V. Gourine
   • G. Vassort

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 127 - 136

9. Protection of ischemic rat heart by dantrolene, an antagonist of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release channel

   • Gongyuan Yu
   • Riccardo Zucchi
   • Giovanni Ronca

   ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 137 - 143

10. Frequency-dependent changes in calcium cycling and contractile activation in SERCA2a transgenic mice

    • Katsuji Hashimoto
    • Nestor Gustavo Perez
    • Eduardo Marbán

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 144 - 151

11. Cesium chloride induced ventricular arrhythmias in dogs: three-dimensional activation patterns and their relation to the cesium dose applied

    • Julia C. Senges
    • Laurence D. Sterns
    • Wolfgang Schoels

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 152 - 162

12. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA deletions in four chambers of failing human heart: hemodynamic stress, age, and disease are important factors

    • Un-Kyung Kim
    • Hyo-Soo Kim
    • Young-Bae Park

    ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION Pages: 163 - 171